Theater of love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Theater of love |
| Original title | L'Amour par terre |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 170 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Rivette |
| script | Jacques Rivette, Pascal Bonitzer , Marilù Parolini , Suzanne Schiffman |
| production | Martine Marignac |
| camera | William Lubtchansky , Caroline Champetier |
| cut | Nicole Lubtchansky |
| occupation | |
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Theater of love (original title: L'Amour par terre ) is a 1984 film by Jacques Rivette .
action
Clément Roquemaure is a well-known playwright in certain circles. Together with the factotum Virgil he lives in a large, white villa, in which the magician Paul is almost always present. And there lived a young woman named Béatrice, but a while ago this Béatrice moved out or - as Virgil points out - disappeared.
In his villa, Roquemaure wants to have his new play performed in front of invited guests by three actors - Emily, Charlotte, Silvano - and he invites them to live in the house until the performance, which the two women also accept.
The roles in the three-person play are assigned, and behind the characters in the play there are characters from the film:
Charlotte plays Barbara (a pseudonym for Béatrice), Emily plays Pierre (a pseudonym for Paul), and Silvano plays Troppmann (a pseudonym for Roquemaure).
Soon it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between what is theater and what is “real” life?
Varia
The white villa
Clément Roquemaures white villa is actually the Villa Gounod and is located in the suburb of Saint-Cloud, west of Paris. The production designer Roberto Plate was responsible for the colorful design of the interior. Before L'Amour par terre , Villa Gounod was also the location for the films Tout feu, tout flamme ( Fire and Flame ) by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and La belle captive by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Today it houses the Musée des Avelines.
"Cupid on the ground"
The French film title is also the title of a poem by Paul Verlaine . However, there are two main differences: in the poem it is the night wind, in the film it is the drunk Charlotte who pushes the statue of Cupid from the pedestal. In the poem the statue is made of marble, in the film it is made of brittle plaster. And Virgil hires at the end of the film - another one? - Duplicate of Cupid on the base.
"The Prophecy"
As always with Rivette's films, there are references between the script and literature. Here it is Arthur Schnitzler's story The Prophecy , from which Rivette was inspired: A character in the story "really dies" when she portrays the death of a theater character. - In L'Amour par terre , Emily had seen the end of Roquemaures' play as a hallucination early on in the film: Pierre (played by Emily herself) lying lifeless on the floor, bleeding from his head. However, unlike Schnitzler's tragic narrative, Rivette's film is a comedy.
Emily and Charlotte
Emily and Charlotte are of course the first names of two of the Brontë sisters. - Rivette's film following L'Amour par terre was Hurlevent , a film adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights .
reception
The film premiered in the competition at the Venice International Film Festival in September 1984. - A Le Monde writer called L'Amour par terre the most amusing film of the festival.
Also Ulrich Greiner went in his report of the Venice Film Festival for THE TIME briefly on the film one, but which he could not do much. He wrote: “… [for me]" L'amour à terre "[sic] by Jacques Rivette was too complicated. It is true that the wonderful women Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin play a subtle, amorous game, but I found the many overly sophisticated refractions and intellectual secrecy exhausting and unproductive. "
DVD
Love on the Ground , Bluebell Films 2008. (French original version with English subtitles.)
literature
- Jan Paaz and Sabine Bubeck (eds.): Jacques Rivette - Labyrinthe . Center d'Information Cinématographique de Munich, Revue CICIM 33 from June 1991. ISBN 3-920727-04-5 . In it pp. 102-106, including the German translation of the review of the film by Marc Chevrie (originally published in Cahiers du Cinéma No. 364 of October 1984).
- Mary M. Wiles: Jacques Rivette (= Contemporary Film Directors ), University of Illinois Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-252-07834-7 . Therein pp. 111-114. (English.)
Web links
- Theater of love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Evelyn Emile: An Always Uncertain End Essay on a website from mubi.com (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Cine-Tourist: country houses and suburban villas (in and around the French New Wave) , where one also learns that Rivette is cheating a bit: Charlotte walks from Avenue d'Eylau in the 16th arrondissement of Paris through a gateway and lands in the park of Villa Gounod in Saint-Cloud.
- ↑ Claire Devarrieux, "le film le plus amusant de la Mostra de Venise 84" ( Le Monde of 18 October 1984)
- ↑ Ulrich Greiner: Beyond Death: Love and Hatred - The 41st Venice Film Festival , in: DIE ZEIT of September 14, 1984.